Featured literary fiction picks

In a mysterious convent, a lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened. When a stranger passes the convent walls, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future and her present life.

Louisa, a 10-year-old girl, survives a mysterious beach incident in Japan where her Korean-born father, Serk, disappears. Together, Louisa and her American-born mother navigate this tragedy over decades.

Four very different strangers, and one little dog, make their way west to Poppy Fields, an experimental and controversial treatment center that allows those suffering from the heartache of loss to sleep through their pain... and keep on sleeping.

When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral. Their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generations.

A search-and-rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

Following their sister's death, Sylvia and Helen, in their 80s, fall into a long-term feud, forcing their children and grandchildren to navigate messy relationships, generational trauma and personal upheavals.

Tucked away in an old building in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication.

In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation and murder as victims accumulate around her college c

Decades after a tangled college love triangle shaped her life, a woman is forced to confront her old choices and hidden truths.

An accomplished actress and an attractive, troubling young man meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. In this novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day-- partner, parent, creator, muse-- and the truths every performance masks.

Beauty mogul and business owner Maxine Thomas has been suspended by her own board for a scandalous transgression. Awaiting the verdict on her future, she recalls the events that brought her to this moment, navigating power dynamics and insatiable ambition.

Amid a global pandemic, a writer explores how a mysterious illness warps reality, identity, memory and language, forcing her to question if she's losing her mind or gaining a new self as she deals with past family trauma and the surreal experience of a changed world.

Arabella, a New York theatre director facing dwindling career prospects, accepts a chance to stage a bold Shakespeare adaptation in the West Bank, while her grandmother plots a match with Palestinian American doctor, triggering a multi-generational tale spanning from 1940s Jaffa to 2012 Palestine.

When 26-year-old Evan returns home to care for his dying mother, he uncovers secrets about her bohemian past, including an intense, romantic relationship with Bob Dylan, leading him to investigate if the musician is his biological father.

A provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity and the internet.

In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory and resilience on the margins of society.